SCOTUS Pauses Order To Return Man From El Salvador

Courthouse News reports:

The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze a midnight deadline for returning a Maryland to the U.S after he was mistakenly sent to a notorious El Salvador prison.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was swept up in deportation flights last month and sent to a terrorism center in El Salvador despite a judge’s order finding he would be persecuted by local gangs in his home country.

The Trump administration is fighting a midnight deadline from a Maryland judge who ordered Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. At the Supreme Court on Monday, the administration argued that Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had no authority to make such demands.

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The Supreme Court has granted an adminsitrative stay of Judge Xinis’s order requiring the government to return Abrego Garcia to the United States from an El Salvador prison.

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JUST IN: Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has put a temporary pause on a previous court order to return a Maryland man from an El Salvador prison by midnight Monday, according to the Associated Press.https://t.co/OfTyHOrC9A

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